windows 2008 Terminal Server suddenly had no drive space

[slj333]

I am wondering if anyone else has seen this or knows what may have caused
this. On our W2k8 TS server (current on MS patching), we have ~30 users
running a published application (MS Navision). Yesterday afternoon, a user
got the message that the server was out of drive space. I logged into the
console, and there was 0 disk space left.

I had been in the server earlier in the day and there was 18GB of space
left. I did a search for large files and found no unusual ones. I then
calculated the folders (starting at c and found that there should still
have been roughly 18GB of space left. I deleted a few unncessary files to see
what would happen, and immediately there was 0 space left again. Some sort of
run away process that was filling up disk space...

I rebooted the box (took a very long time), and the disk space was free
again (18gb). So far the box has been running for 14 hours and the problem
has not reoccured. Anyone have any ideas? Users are using client redirected
printers for the most part with the Easy print driver...

Any help would be great appreciated.

 

[Jeff Pitsch]

Re: windows 2008 Terminal Server suddenly had no drive space

There are many tools out there that will show you where the disk space is
being eaten. you might try using one of those to see if it can detect where
the file(s) are that is taking up space.

--
Jeff Pitsch
Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services

"slj333" <slj333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:45BBD928-44FF-4AD4-9BCC-B2EC269B80A7@microsoft.com...
>I am wondering if anyone else has seen this or knows what may have caused
> this. On our W2k8 TS server (current on MS patching), we have ~30 users
> running a published application (MS Navision). Yesterday afternoon, a user
> got the message that the server was out of drive space. I logged into the
> console, and there was 0 disk space left.
>
> I had been in the server earlier in the day and there was 18GB of space
> left. I did a search for large files and found no unusual ones. I then
> calculated the folders (starting at c and found that there should still
> have been roughly 18GB of space left. I deleted a few unncessary files to
> see
> what would happen, and immediately there was 0 space left again. Some sort
> of
> run away process that was filling up disk space...
>
> I rebooted the box (took a very long time), and the disk space was free
> again (18gb). So far the box has been running for 14 hours and the problem
> has not reoccured. Anyone have any ideas? Users are using client
> redirected
> printers for the most part with the Easy print driver...
>
> Any help would be great appreciated.

 

[slj333]

Re: windows 2008 Terminal Server suddenly had no drive space

Hi Jeff,

okay, I'll look for a tool that can show where the disk space is
dissapearing to. I was hoping that someone else had a similar experience that
would point to a printer driver, or another process gone amok.

Best,
Steve

"Jeff Pitsch" wrote:

> There are many tools out there that will show you where the disk space is
> being eaten. you might try using one of those to see if it can detect where
> the file(s) are that is taking up space.
>
> --
> Jeff Pitsch
> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services
>
> "slj333" <slj333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:45BBD928-44FF-4AD4-9BCC-B2EC269B80A7@microsoft.com...
> >I am wondering if anyone else has seen this or knows what may have caused
> > this. On our W2k8 TS server (current on MS patching), we have ~30 users
> > running a published application (MS Navision). Yesterday afternoon, a user
> > got the message that the server was out of drive space. I logged into the
> > console, and there was 0 disk space left.
> >
> > I had been in the server earlier in the day and there was 18GB of space
> > left. I did a search for large files and found no unusual ones. I then
> > calculated the folders (starting at c and found that there should still
> > have been roughly 18GB of space left. I deleted a few unncessary files to
> > see
> > what would happen, and immediately there was 0 space left again. Some sort
> > of
> > run away process that was filling up disk space...
> >
> > I rebooted the box (took a very long time), and the disk space was free
> > again (18gb). So far the box has been running for 14 hours and the problem
> > has not reoccured. Anyone have any ideas? Users are using client
> > redirected
> > printers for the most part with the Easy print driver...
> >
> > Any help would be great appreciated.
>
>
>

 

[moncho]

Re: windows 2008 Terminal Server suddenly had no drive space

slj333 wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> okay, I'll look for a tool that can show where the disk space is
> dissapearing to. I was hoping that someone else had a similar experience that
> would point to a printer driver, or another process gone amok.
Just a hunch (most likely slim to none).

You mentioned that it took a long time to reboot.

Do you have the policy set to clear the swap file upon reboot/shutdown?

Did you check the size of the swap file and maybe that was eating it up?

moncho
>
> Best,
> Steve
>
> "Jeff Pitsch" wrote:
>
>> There are many tools out there that will show you where the disk space is
>> being eaten. you might try using one of those to see if it can detect where
>> the file(s) are that is taking up space.
>>
>> --
>> Jeff Pitsch
>> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services
>>
>> "slj333" <slj333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:45BBD928-44FF-4AD4-9BCC-B2EC269B80A7@microsoft.com...
>>> I am wondering if anyone else has seen this or knows what may have caused
>>> this. On our W2k8 TS server (current on MS patching), we have ~30 users
>>> running a published application (MS Navision). Yesterday afternoon, a user
>>> got the message that the server was out of drive space. I logged into the
>>> console, and there was 0 disk space left.
>>>
>>> I had been in the server earlier in the day and there was 18GB of space
>>> left. I did a search for large files and found no unusual ones. I then
>>> calculated the folders (starting at c and found that there should still
>>> have been roughly 18GB of space left. I deleted a few unncessary files to
>>> see
>>> what would happen, and immediately there was 0 space left again. Some sort
>>> of
>>> run away process that was filling up disk space...
>>>
>>> I rebooted the box (took a very long time), and the disk space was free
>>> again (18gb). So far the box has been running for 14 hours and the problem
>>> has not reoccured. Anyone have any ideas? Users are using client
>>> redirected
>>> printers for the most part with the Easy print driver...
>>>
>>> Any help would be great appreciated.
>>
>>

 

[steve]

Re: windows 2008 Terminal Server suddenly had no drive space

Hey Moncho,
The swap was previously controlled by the OS, when this occurred was around
3.75 gb. I changed this prior to rebooting to no longer be under the os'
control.

I was not aware of the policy setting to clear the swap file upon reboot, so
that is still at default.

Steve

"moncho" wrote:

> slj333 wrote:
> > Hi Jeff,
> >
> > okay, I'll look for a tool that can show where the disk space is
> > dissapearing to. I was hoping that someone else had a similar experience that
> > would point to a printer driver, or another process gone amok.
> Just a hunch (most likely slim to none).
>
> You mentioned that it took a long time to reboot.
>
> Do you have the policy set to clear the swap file upon reboot/shutdown?
>
> Did you check the size of the swap file and maybe that was eating it up?
>
> moncho
> >
> > Best,
> > Steve
> >
> > "Jeff Pitsch" wrote:
> >
> >> There are many tools out there that will show you where the disk space is
> >> being eaten. you might try using one of those to see if it can detect where
> >> the file(s) are that is taking up space.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Jeff Pitsch
> >> Microsoft MVP - Terminal Services
> >>
> >> "slj333" <slj333@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:45BBD928-44FF-4AD4-9BCC-B2EC269B80A7@microsoft.com...
> >>> I am wondering if anyone else has seen this or knows what may have caused
> >>> this. On our W2k8 TS server (current on MS patching), we have ~30 users
> >>> running a published application (MS Navision). Yesterday afternoon, a user
> >>> got the message that the server was out of drive space. I logged into the
> >>> console, and there was 0 disk space left.
> >>>
> >>> I had been in the server earlier in the day and there was 18GB of space
> >>> left. I did a search for large files and found no unusual ones. I then
> >>> calculated the folders (starting at c and found that there should still
> >>> have been roughly 18GB of space left. I deleted a few unncessary files to
> >>> see
> >>> what would happen, and immediately there was 0 space left again. Some sort
> >>> of
> >>> run away process that was filling up disk space...
> >>>
> >>> I rebooted the box (took a very long time), and the disk space was free
> >>> again (18gb). So far the box has been running for 14 hours and the problem
> >>> has not reoccured. Anyone have any ideas? Users are using client
> >>> redirected
> >>> printers for the most part with the Easy print driver...
> >>>
> >>> Any help would be great appreciated.
> >>
> >>
>